The target is women who spend time in their bare feet doing yoga, Pilates and dancing.
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Competition among a surplus of Pilates instructors and gardeners will drive service wages down.
Migrating in reverse, Joseph Pilates' eponymous strengthening exercises for dancers started in New York in the 1930s.
Could these women not possibly stand up to the bullies unless they got Pilates abs and Twiggy arms?
She teaches people how to take care of their bodies, eat right and live fully through Pilates, Yoga and Martial Arts.
The hotel also offers Pilates and a variety of other similar services to nourish or soothe body and soul.
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The judge rejected that claim, ruling that Pilates had become a generic name, and thus not one entitled to protection.
On a recent afternoon after a pilates class, she climbed into a chauffeured Land Rover and headed to a sushi restaurant.
The singer has always been associated with trends like yoga and Pilates and she has the arms to prove it.
We have everything, bootcamps, mixed martial arts, boxing, Zumba, cycling, pilates, yoga.
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The training even incorporated such classes as Zumba, Pilates, tai chi and yoga, says Dawn Baker, Dow's global director of talent management.
Afterward, bask in the pleasure of the spa's state-of-the-art exercise equipment, including an Aveda Spa Pool, hot tub and Pilates and yoga classes.
The centers--the first is already open in Plano, Texas--will have spas with yoga and Pilates classes and will sell organic foods, cosmetics and clothing.
An example of this is in the Pilates program at Pixar Animation Studios that I direct we have three levels of instruction, beginning, intermediate and advanced.
Ms. Matthews recalls a duo in which one person was into running on the treadmill and lifting weights, and the other preferred Pilates and yoga movements.
For his entry in the 2012 edition of Who's Who, the director listed his interests as "eating, being difficult, making table mats, washing silk shirts" and "doing Pilates badly".
She was a contemporary dancer in Vancouver and is now a personal trainer and specializes in Stott Pilates and exercises with Swiss Balls and other stretching techniques.
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Working in California with coach Teri McKeever, she does hip-hop, yoga, Pilates and spin classes, trying to become a better all-around athlete instead of just a swimmer.
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Lots of easy movements, beach strolling, swimming, hiking, daily yoga or Pilates, yummy fresh local selections, lots of tropical fruits and vegetables, grilled fish or chicken, nothing complicated.
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Winslow is also a pro golfer, hailing from Phoenix AZ and a 2014 Winter Olympic hopeful in Skeleton, a form of 80 mph Pilates on ice.
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He even attended weekly Pilates classes to build core strength.
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The craze for pilates, an exercise routine, began in Britain.
"We do see this as a fairness issue, " said Edward Walsh, a spokesman for the Department of Taxation and Finance, noting that Pilates studios have to pay sales tax.
His subjects include 100-year-old Ruth Kobin, who attributes her vitality to weekly pilates, and 81-year-old dancer Jacquie "Tajah" Murdock, who once worked as a typist by day and Apollo chorus girl by night.
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